Title: fatal error require()
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# fatal error require()

 *  [noooneh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noooneh/)
 * (@noooneh)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-require/)
 * getting this message all of a sudden when i try to reach my website
    my site 
   is : [http://tadwin4syria.6te.net](http://tadwin4syria.6te.net)
 * message:
    **Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required‘/
   home/vhosts/tadwin4syria.6te.net/wp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/
   share/pear:/usr/share/php’) in /home/vhosts/tadwin4syria.6te.net/wp-settings.
   php on line 21**
 * I haven’t been doing anything fancy then. no upgrading, no plugin installation.
   maybe some css modulating and that’s it.
 * any idea what the problem is? and BTW what’s this include path? does it refer
   to some file path?

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 *  Thread Starter [noooneh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/noooneh/)
 * (@noooneh)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-require/#post-2242655)
 * i checked my **load.php** and my **wp-settings.php** files and they’re both intact.
 * opened my **wp-settings.php** file and found these lines starting from line 20
 *     ```
       // Include files required for initialization.
       require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/load.php' );
       require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/default-constants.php' );
       require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/version.php' );
   
       // Set initial default constants including WP_MEMORY_LIMIT, WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT, WP_DEBUG, WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CACHE.
       wp_initial_constants( );
       ```
   
 * tried to comment the first four lines (to get rid of the reqire issue) and that’s
   what i got on my website:
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_initial_constants() in /home/vhosts/
   tadwin4syria.6te.net/wp-settings.php on line 26
 * so it seems like i have to comment this also and so on and so forth. what’s the
   problem?

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-require/#post-2242655)
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